From November 24th to December 9th, Nick Reid, professor and ecologist from the University of New England in Australia, was invited by HZAU to teach in full English the course named Ecosystem Restoration, part of the brainpower-introducing program funded by State Administration of Foreign Experts Affairs. Quite a few undergraduate and graduate students across HZAU took the course.
In this course, Nick Reid systematically illustrated the basic theories of ecosystem restoration and reconstruction and expounded the application of the theory of ecosystem restoration and reconstruction in real life by citing a large number of cases in terrestrial ecosystem and aquatic ecosystem. At the end of the course, each student was asked to describe the five phases of the ecosystem restoration process in three minutes with one PPT slide.
During the visit, professor Cheng Yunjiang, dean of the College of Horticultural & Forestry, professor Kuang Hanhui, vice dean of the College of Horticultural & Forestry and Professor Wang Pengcheng, vice dean of the College of Horticultural & Forestry exchanged views with Nick Reid on the research cooperation and the joint education of undergraduate and graduate students. Nick visited the Forest Ecosystem Observation and Research Station of the Yangtze River Three Gorges Reservoir in Hubei Province that HZAU participated in and discussed in detail with relevant staff on the researches based on the positioning station.
Professor Reid is giving a lecture.
In addition, Nick Reid also gave a lecture titled "Mistletoe Ecology and Management in Australia" which focused on his team’s 40-year research of biology and ecology on mistletoe plants. He introduced the prevention and control of mistletoe plants in terms of their distribution, hosts, seed communicators (mainly birds) and co-evolution with other species, and discussed with the teachers and students of forestry.
Profile: Nick Reid chaired UNE's Academic Board between 2013 and 2018. He is head of the School of Environmental and Rural Science and a professor in Ecosystem Management. He has done the ecological research of mistletoe plants for a long time and has made outstanding achievements in the management and restoration of ecosystem. He has published more than 200 papers, which include more than 40 papers published on Ecology, Forum of Applied Ecology, Journal of Forest Ecology and Management and other top journals on ecology and forestry.
Source: http://news.hzau.edu.cn/2018/1220/53359.shtml
Translated by Ouyang Liting
Supervised by Xie Lujie
